Building Robot Droids Recycled Kids Crafts

Building robot droids out of household junk
makes them one of the best ever recycled crafts for kids.

You can see
some of the crafts skills you can use to build your own robot below
together with photos of our best homeschool robots.

Recycled crafts are one of the best ways for your kids to build a robot. See the inventive use of a trigger action spray bottle for Doberbot's head and how you can use part of an electric circuit board to build Ramjet's back.

Once
your kids have got the idea, you can use any household junk for
building robot droids.

My children Catherine and William quickly moved on to learn
how to build their own homeschool robots and we're hoping to inspire your kids to have a go too.

Now I have to be clear and say this is not one of our homeschooling ideas.

And used the techniques he taught us to make our own simple
homeschool recycled robots.

I hope you'll be able to use the same
crafts skills to build your own robot!

But I strongly recommend that
you buy his book, which has detailed instructions for building all sorts
of cool robots for kids.

Once you've had a go at his dinosaur robots for kids, his second book:
Making Robot Warriors From Junk by Stephen Munzer
will teach you even more crafts skills!

Have a look at the recycled crafts we used in our homeschool and see if you can spot Stephen's Ramjet, Doberbot and TerrorSaw robots.

How To Build A Simple Robot

The best way for your kids to start building robots is to click on the picture below, where you can see how to make recycled crafts terrifying by turning them into T-Wrecks.

You'll see a parts list and an outline of the simple crafts skills
you'll need to build robots.

Robot Building Inspiration

Here's
an example of how inventive use of recycled crafts can turn anything
into simple homeschool kids robots!

Catherine's homeschool Squash Droid
has a hand cream container body with a medicine bottle squishy lid
stuck on the top.

I like the recycled toothbrushes best!

Recycled Crafts

Robot
building for beginners is all about choosing the simple option.

When
you start eyeing up household junk with a practiced eye, you'll see some
things are much easier to build your own robot out of than others.

Cool
robot heads are great from trigger action spray bottles - you can see
how to make them into perfect pointed heads.

Stephen Munzer's Doberbot has ears which you can build from the ends of a coat hanger.

Another cool choice when you're looking for heads for robots is an air freshener.
They come in all sorts of different designs, but that's part of the
beauty of recycled crafts! You can adapt whatever you have to learning
how to make the best robot parts.

See how Catherine's used a furniture polish lid to make her homeschool robot Robo Spikes.

To help you get more idea of the crafts skills you'll need to build
your own robot, she takes you through the homeschooling steps stage by
stage so you can see exactly how it's done in our page on recycling crafts for kids.

Building Robot Bodies

You can choose all sorts of recyled crafts when it comes to building robot bodies.

The robot body Catherine's used for her homeschool Squash Bot
is harder, because circular things are always more difficult for your
kids to get the wheels stuck on.

Something thin and roughly rectangular
makes things simple, so get your kids to have a look round for
something to recycle.
The bathroom is a good place to start!